North-western Washington: It's [sic] Soil, Climate, Productions and General Resources : with Detail[ed] Description of the Counties of Jefferson, Clal[l]am, Island, San Juan and WhatcomSociety, 1877 - 53 էջ |
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abundance acres Admiralty Inlet agricultural alder American average British bushels C. B. BAGLEY Capt Cascade Mountains Cascade range cedar Clalam climate coal coast Columbia river Colville County Seat Cowlitz creek crop cultivation District east Eastern empties established export extensive farms feet fertile fish fisheries harbor Hood's Canal Hudson's Bay Company inches Indian Island lake located maple marsh mill month mouth navigable Neah Bay northern Oregon Pacific Ocean population Port Discovery Port Ludlow Port Townsend post office pounds prairies PUBLIC PRINTER Puget Sound quantities railroad rich sailed salmon San Francisco San Juan San Juan Island schooners season Seattle settlement settlers ship shore snow soil Spokane square miles steamers Steilacoom Strait of Fuca streams summer Taxable property timber tion tonnage tons town upland Vancouver vessels vicinity Walla Walla Washington Territory Western Washington Whatcom wheat winter Yakima
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Էջ 26 - Nothing can exceed the beauty of these waters, and their safety: not a shoal exists within the straits of Juan de Fuca, Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, or Hood's Canal, that can in any way interrupt their navigation by a seventy-four gun ship. I venture nothing in saying, there is no country in the world that possesses waters equal to these.
Էջ 2 - Hewctt have been appointed a committee on the part of the Senate, to act with a like committee on the part of the House, to...
Էջ 4 - I laid before him,) until he came to the latitude of 47 degrees ; and that there finding that the land trended north and northeast, with a broad inlet of sea, between 47 and 48 degrees of latitude...
Էջ 5 - We can now with safety assert, that no such river as that of Saint Roc exists, as laid down in the Spanish charts: to those of Maurelle we made continual reference, but without deriving any information or assistance from them.
Էջ 26 - The country by which these waters are surrounded is remarkably salubrious, and affords every advantage for the accommodation of a vast commercial and military marine, with convenience for docks, and a great many sites for towns and cities, at all times well supplied with water, and capable of being well provided with everything by the surrounding country, which is well adapted for agriculture.
Էջ 47 - SEC. 2347. Every person above the age of twenty-one years, who is a citizen of the United States, or who has declared his intention to become s'uch, or any association of persons severally qualified as above, shall, upon application to the Register of the proper land office, have the right to enter, by legal subdivisions, any quantity of vacant coal lands of the United States...
Էջ 26 - ... a ship's side would strike the shore before the keel would touch the ground. The country by which these waters are surrounded is remarkably salubrious, and offers every advantage for the accommodation of a vast commercial and military marine, with convenience for docks, and a great many sites for towns and cities ; at all times well supplied with water, and capable of being provided with everything by the surrounding country, which is well adapted for agriculture.
Էջ 37 - No emigrants or other whites, except the Hudson's Bay Company, or persons having ceded rights from the Indians, will be permitted to settle or remain in the Indian country, or on land not ceded by treaty, confirmed by the Senate, and approved by the President of the United States.
Էջ 11 - We, the people of Oregon Territory, for purposes of mutual protection, and to secure peace and prosperity among ourselves, agree to adopt the following laws and regulations until such time as the United States of America extend their jurisdiction over us.
Էջ 26 - The shores of all these inlets and bays are remarkably bold; so much so that in many places a ship's side would strike the shore before the keel would touch the ground. The country by which these waters are surrounded is remarkably salubrious, and...